Quotes About Stigma

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. And they have to work a lot longer and harder than more privileged people do.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Blondes are the girlfriend, brunete is the femme fatale, but the heroine, she's the redheaded girl.

Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

I wondered if they had my name on database now, with an alert next to it: nutter.

Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos).

Closing the asylums has not brought us any closer to working out how we should respond to mental illness. We still prefer to think that out of mind should mean out of sight.

Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

Back home they call me the tie-dye shirt kid. Well, that and faggot.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

Are you Polish? Okay, I'll talk slower.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

Ke$ha IS the walk of shame.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

The wider you spread your fingers apart while clapping is equal to the amount of retarded you look while clapping.

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.